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Virginia Grayson
Born 1967
Palmerston North, New Zealand
Education
Known for Drawing
Notable work
No conclusions drawn – self portrait (2008)
Awards Dobell Prize (2008)

Virginia Grayson, also known as Ginny Grayson, is an artist born in New Zealand in 1967. She is famous for her drawings. She also won the important Dobell Prize for Drawing.

About Virginia Grayson

Virginia Grayson was born in 1967 in Palmerston North, New Zealand. She studied film and media at Victoria University of Wellington. In the early 1990s, she lived in New York for a while. Later, she moved to Sydney and then to Melbourne, Australia.

Her Art Training

Virginia trained at the RMIT School of Art in Melbourne. In 2009, she had an art show in the school's gallery.

Winning the Dobell Prize

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No conclusions drawn – self portrait (2008)

In 2008, Virginia Grayson was working in her art studio in Melbourne. That September, she won the Dobell Prize for Drawing. This was a big competition with 586 entries! Her winning drawing was shown at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Anne Kirker, a former art curator, was the judge.

About Her Winning Drawing

Virginia's winning artwork was called No conclusions drawn – self portrait. She made it using pencil, charcoal, and watercolor. The drawing shows Virginia standing in her art studio.

Virginia said the drawing showed how she felt unsure about her art at that time. She sometimes even destroyed her drawings when she felt frustrated. A writer from Sydney Morning Herald described the drawing as "sombre." They noted that Virginia in the picture "stares grimly into the distance."

When asked what she would do with the AUS$20,000 prize money, she joked that she "wouldn't mind getting my ute fixed."

What Critics Said

Robert Nelson, an art writer for The Age newspaper, thought Virginia's drawing was like the work of another artist, Alberto Giacometti. He said her drawing was "curious and inquiring." It seemed like she was always looking closely at what she was drawing.

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